State Magazine: Hydro houses water research and education at CSU Spur
Hydro opened in January at CSU Spur in Denver, including engineering research labs like the Hydro Water TAP and the CSU Biomanufacturing and Biotechnology Laboratory.
Hydro opened in January at CSU Spur in Denver, including engineering research labs like the Hydro Water TAP and the CSU Biomanufacturing and Biotechnology Laboratory.
The CoCoRaHS rain and snow observation network, began at CSU, has 20,000 members across the country. Minnesota leads in adding new volunteers. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
“The next week is looking really promising in terms of snowfall for the high elevations. It’s likely to improve runoff forecasts even from where they are now for the most part,” said Peter Goble, a climatologist for the Colorado Climate Center. (Grand Junction Daily Sentinel)
Here are some of the records Cyclone Freddy has already (or may have) broken according to experts at Colorado State University’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere. (Forbes)
Cutting-edge engineering research received a boost in the fall with seed money from the Scott Foundation.
Faculty and staff plan to bring more than 20 engineering programs and research projects to the Hydro grand opening to showcase the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at Spur.
Civil and environmental engineering professor Hussam Mahmoud hopes to prevent widespread wildfire damage by predicting which buildings in a community are most at-risk for damage. (9News Denver)
Fourteen named storms formed in 2022, with eight of these storms becoming hurricanes and two reaching major hurricane strength.
“It’s really an insult-to-injury type of finding,” says co-author John Volckens. “Not only do we see more air pollution in these communities, it contains a nastier mix of bad actors.” (Wired)
CSU’s William Cotton, professor emeritus in Atmospheric Science, isn’t sure about those studies showing “5% to 15%” enhancement. The “sometimes desperate” search for water in the West “might not be as promising as people wish” in delivering extra snowpack. (Colorado Sun)